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One thing so far not discussed yet, not even in the press  here is the impact of the results on the regional governments.

Yves Leterme, frontrunner of the CD&V and probably the next premier, is now minister-president of the Flemish government.

So, he can't be both.  Other regional ministers are important too in this federal elections and will make the move to the federal government.

So we will see not only negotiations between parties, but also inside the party's for all those functions.

The struggle of man against tyranny is the struggle of memory against forgetting.(Kundera)

by Elco B (elcob at scarlet dot be) on Sun Jun 10th, 2007 at 02:15:09 PM EST
If Yves is. MR is pretty strong now in Wallonia, above PS. They could also benefit from having more rest seats due to the FN (hopefully) not making the threshold. Flanders is more splintered. May be that MR becomes the largest party in parliament, or that MR/Open VLD combined are larger than CD&V/cdH. The MR leader IIRC already said that Verhofstadt could stay PM even if they are larger than Open VLD.
by nanne (zwaerdenmaecker@gmail.com) on Sun Jun 10th, 2007 at 03:00:29 PM EST
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